Madame de Pompadour Francois Boucher (1703-1770)
Francois Boucher – Madame de Pompadour
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François Boucher was not considered a portrait painter. Throughout his artistic life he painted more than a thousand paintings, of which portraits were only a little more than a dozen. Most of these portraits are of the Marquise de Pompadour. The name of the Marquise de Pompadour was known to many during her lifetime. She had a love affair with Louis 15. Despite a brief relationship (about five years), their friendship persisted in many areas. Pompadour sympathized with Boucher and considered him a genius.
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Description of the painting "Marquise de Pompadour" by François Boucher
François Boucher was not considered a portrait painter. Throughout his artistic life he painted more than a thousand paintings, of which portraits were only a little more than a dozen. Most of these portraits are of the Marquise de Pompadour.
The name of the Marquise de Pompadour was known to many during her lifetime. She had a love affair with Louis 15. Despite a brief relationship (about five years), their friendship persisted in many areas.
Pompadour sympathized with Boucher and considered him a genius. It was to him that she entrusted the painting of her portraits.
In the painting Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, we see a young girl who lies on a couch in a pretty boudoir. She is dressed in fine and expensive clothes, and looking at her high-heeled shoes we can say without a doubt that this is the Marquise de Pompadour, a great fashionista. The Marquise succeeded in introducing the rule of frequent washing in Versailles (she was shocked by the "aroma" of urine, sweat and dust that wafted in the air of the palace). Boucher, by painting roses on her dress, wanted to show the purity and fragrance of the Marquise with these wonderful flowers. The plot of the painting was based on the Marquise’s reflections on the book she had read. Madame was the patroness of art and literature in France - this is emphasized by the book opened in the hands of a girl. Behind her is a mirror in which we can look at her hair.
Despite the realism of the image, the Marquise de Pompadour occasionally reproached the artist for painting her beautiful, though not much like herself.
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